MARCELLOMERCADO

Mar­cel­lo Mer­ca­do, born in Argen­ti­na in 1963, has been living and working in Brühl/Cologne sin­ce 1999. He was a scho­l­ar­ship hol­der at the Kunst­hoch­schu­le für Medi­en in Colo­gne as well as a grant reci­pi­ent of the John D. and Cathe­ri­ne T. MacAr­thur Foun­da­ti­on and the Rocke­fel­ler Foun­da­ti­on, USA, and Stif­tung Nie­der­sach­sen at Edith-Russ-Haus für Medi­en­kunst in 2013. His work has been shown in solo and group exhi­bi­ti­ons sin­ce the 1990s, inclu­ding in the Vil­lem Flus­ser exhi­bi­ti­on at Aka­de­mie der Küns­te, Ber­lin, at Zen­trum für Kunst und Medi­en­tech­no­lo­gie, Karls­ru­he
(ZKM), at Trans­me­dia­le, Ber­lin, at Osna­brück Kunst­hal­le, at Muse­um Lud­wig in Colo­gne as well as at the 49th Veni­ce Bien­na­le. Mercado’s works are in nume­rous collec­tions inclu­ding LIMA, Ams­ter­dam (Nether­lands), Museo de Arte Moder­no, Bue­nos Aires, the Dani­el Lan­g­lois Foun­da­ti­on, Mon­tréal, Cana­da, the Video Stu­dy Cen­ter of the Muse­um of Modern Art, New York and Gale­ría Van­guar­dia, Bil­bao (Spain).